#tendency

Some people have a tendency to get knocked down in this business and sulk and whine, and they just create a rod for their back, really. You have to have broad shoulders and get through it. ↗

— Pierce Brosnan

#broad #business #create #down #get

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power. ↗

— Henry George

#civilization #destroyed #distribution #every #power

We also have a tendency to root for the fugitive. We're always on the side of the animal being chased. ↗

— Norman Jewison

#always #animal #being #chased #fugitive

Well, I think the worst part about tribalism is its tendency to fundamentalize, and if I can fight fundamentalism in any of its forms I'm happy. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#any #fight #forms #fundamentalism #happy

I have a tendency to go through my life at full speed and as a one-man band, and so I don't generally stop and take in other people enough to develop many relationships. I'm starting to regret that a bit. I want to change it. ↗

— Gillian Anderson

#bit #change #develop #enough #full

Man's striving for order, of which art is but one manifestation, derives from a similar universal tendency throughout the organic world; it is also paralleled by, and perhaps derived from, the striving towards the state of simplest structure in physical systems. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#art #derived #derives #man #manifestation

There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#energy #explain #explanations #genesis #i

Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#already #america #anyone #attention #course

There's a tendency to fall into certain habits, but if you tell yourself not to do that and if you don't stay there too long - I think if you start staying for too long, you tend to fall into certain bad habits, and I tried not to do that. ↗

— Josh Duhamel

#bad habits #certain #fall #habits #i

Moreover, we are showing a dismaying tendency to recast God in Man's image. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#image #man #moreover #showing #tendency